Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > I have updated the source and recompiled with dmalloc. This didn't > catch the problem. I have several core files and they often mention > possible stack corruption. I don't know where to get 'Purify'. I > only see a 'Rational Purify' from IBM and it looks like a commercial > product.
That's what I meant. I don't think they have any competitor. Maybe
such software is even impossible on x86 hardware as the VM protection
isn't fine-grained enough.
> Would electric fence work? Looks like it also concentrates on
> malloc/free.
It's worth a try, I don't know.
> Could this be an actual stack overflow? The traces
> always look different.
Possibly, yes. You could try GCC SSP:
http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/
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Christian
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